“You are such a bad mom.” At least, that’s what the voice in my head liked to tell me whenever I felt like I had done something wrong. Maybe my child was mad at me because I sided with their sibling during a conflict. Maybe another was sad because I forgot about their class party.…

Life has a way of taking us places we never expected.  Last October, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Those words have a way of dividing life into two chapters: before and after. The months that followed were filled with doctor appointments, a double mastectomy, four rounds of chemotherapy, and more uncertainty than I had ever experienced. Today, I am…